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Glenn and Stu discuss the results of the mid-term elections and how to make sure your dog s kibble is safe for long-term consumption. They also talk about a new product from a naturopathic doctor that could make your dog's kibble taste better.
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So, could you just tell me what exactly is going on now?
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Yes, the Senate has been called for the Democrats over the weekend.
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Blake Masters in Arizona lost and Adam Laxalt in Nevada lost.
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Now, simultaneously in Nevada, the gubernatorial candidate for the Republicans won.
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But the Republican did win in Nevada, which is some good news.
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Now, I understand that, thank goodness, they found some ballots from, like, the kitchen
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What exactly happened with these extra ballots?
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That's stuff they're going to sort out here, I guess, in the coming weeks.
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I mean, again, there's people still challenging.
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I think Carrie Lake is, I'd be interested to hear what she says.
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But she, you know, this is a race we talked about that would, if she could sweep it out,
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But it does not look all that promising by the votes that have come in.
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I don't know if there's a different perspective from Arizona.
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But looking just at the results over the past three or four days, I don't think it looks
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The House still remains as a Republican favorite, though, like, there's one of the sites, one
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of the mainstream sites keeps quoting it as, like, Republicans, 221 seats is the projection,
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I was like, well, that's a big plus or minus four, because the minus four is 217, which
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And that's sort of the, like, if every single thing goes wrong, they could still lose the
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They would definitely be the overwhelming favorite to win it.
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So far, though, hasn't every single thing gone wrong?
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You look at the races that are outstanding, and you just see a lot of, like, California stuff.
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You know, there's not a lot there you'd be like, okay, that one should come.
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The race seems to be completely counted, basically.
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And she leads by a couple, and I was going to say a couple thousand.
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It's really just basically a thousand and change.
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Is there a labor union that hasn't found their votes yet?
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There's a few more that I think are Republican favored.
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And as much as this all feels really disappointing, clearing that hurdle is a major, major hurdle.
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It was the only one that seemed like a real sure thing coming in.
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It's going to be a much smaller, a smaller margin if they get it than we were hoping for.
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You get to be able, you can block stuff that's going through that Biden wants.
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There's a lot you can do with just that one piece.
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Then you can put it to the side of a catastrophic election.
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And right now, I think people feel catastrophe because many people expected a red tsunami.
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And, you know, I never thought that that was the most likely outcome.
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Because it feels like you got punched somewhere you didn't want to get punched.
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So there is another election that is supposedly happening this week.
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Don't know why he would be trying to get this done so fast.
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The reason why Mitch McConnell wants to have an election this week is because nobody in the Senate is really prepared for it.
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So they're going to have a top secret meeting on Tuesday.
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And that's when they're going to hear from, you know, anybody else that wants to put their hat in the ring.
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I hope somebody puts their hat in the ring because Mitch McConnell has got to go.
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If there's anyone that you could say, I think they played a role in the loss here, it would be Mitch McConnell.
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You know, why did you put so much money in the Murkowski race when we knew it was going to be a Republican either way?
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He did that because he wanted to make sure he had Murkowski who would kowtow to him.
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We also know why he didn't put money into Blake Masters, which we could have won that race.
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Because he knew Blake Masters wouldn't kowtow to the all-powerful Oz, otherwise known as the Turtle.
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Which I don't think he put any money into that one either, did he?
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That was certainly a tougher race, although I think Oz wound up losing by, what was it, four points?
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When you have a guy who is incapable of communicating with other human beings, it does seem to be winnable, you know?
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So here's what I'd like to ask you to participate in.
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I would like you to write this phone number down, 202-224-3121.
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Now, you can go online and look for your senator and find the direct line to your Senate office, but I highly recommend that you do today.
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In fact, Deb Fisher from Nebraska, she should be called.
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Roger Whitker from Mississippi, he should be called.
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And let's see who's on the side for Mitch McConnell.
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Who is it that will actually stand with this guy?
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Because I think, personally, that they should have another election and see if we can get anybody else to take over for Mitch McConnell.
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Because he was instrumental in getting nothing done.
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The only thing that you can credit Mitch McConnell on is the Supreme Court.
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However, for all of the years that he's been running the dump, that's the only thing I can think of.
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So, what have you done for us lately, Mitch, besides screwed this up?
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Mitch McConnell and his ilk are going to be exactly the same as they have always been.
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Mitt Romney, he said last week, there's only one person who is responsible for the red wave that is coming, and that is Mitch McConnell.
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And I thought that was the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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He does deserve credit for everything that has just happened.
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So, I highly recommend that you call your senators.
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I think most of these are up for re-election next time.
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Well, anyway, I think you should call them and say,
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Hey, we want to know if you're going to vote for or against Mitch McConnell.
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And if they say against Mitch McConnell, great.
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If they say, It's a secret ballot, and we're not sure who is.
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Just let them know, you're writing that down as a vote for Mitch McConnell.
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Then you might want to also call, you know, some of the others that might be thinking about,
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A lot of senators are probably considering it, Glenn.
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I would assume Marco Rubio, who also won, I think, by 17 points in Florida.
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And isn't he one of them that just came out and said, hey, maybe we should replace Mitch McConnell?
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Now, you don't think that it's, I mean, I take Marco Rubio at his word.
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It's not just because he's running for president and knows you're not going to go anywhere in the Republican Party if you back Mitch McConnell.
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Anyway, you might want to call some of these senators.
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Could you run as a Republican if you were in the Senate?
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Could you run if you had voted for Mitch McConnell?
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You'd probably entertain the interest of a bunch of money from Mitch McConnell.
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I don't think a primary would, that would not look good in your primary record.
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Because everybody who doesn't vote for Mitch McConnell, I think they're going to be fine saying, I didn't vote for Mitch McConnell.
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They're going to say, they're going to say, uh, no, I'm not voting for him.
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Uh, but just make sure everybody in the Senate on the Republican side understands you're not joking around.
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You are clear what Mitch McConnell has done for you and the country.
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Did I tell you that they're voting on that on Wednesday?
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And what, four days, five days after they called the Senate?
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Because, uh, Schumer's not, not calling for a re-election until, uh, December.
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If there's anything you'd say about Mitch McConnell, it's that he's speedy.
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He, when he sees a continuing resolution or an omnibus bill, he is on it.
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They'll give it to him and he'll say, right, right, right away.
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He gets it to the guys within hours of the vote.
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So when we're looking at another omnibus or we're looking for a continuing resolution,
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And when we're looking now at the 2024 election coming up, I think, I think Mitch is the guy
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to chart the course to get that Republican Party back on track.
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So, Glenn, what do you think the field looks like in 2024?
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I know we're getting ahead of ourselves a little bit here.
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But I'm curious as to you think, do you think this develops the same way that it developed
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Where we have, like, almost everyone you've ever seen on Fox News is a candidate?
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I think there was a hope among some that maybe you'd have, you know, Trump versus DeSantis.
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Maybe, like, a Larry Hogan who's probably going to get in it as a moderate.
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But, like, the two people with a chance to win and then a limited field where you'd see
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two people kind of fight it out and then you'd get to the end with some sort of rational
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In 2016, there were so many candidates all at the same time.
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You know, debate stages, they split up over multiple days.
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I mean, this is all coming back to me now and it's starting to be terrifying.
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Everybody is going to be running for vice president.
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They're going to run for president, but their belief is...
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And that happened, of course, that played out in the Democratic primary in 2020 where a
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And if we have people like Mitch McConnell, we'll do that again, you know.
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Let's get the least popular person and put them on the ticket.
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Rand Paul has been very much in the news over the past couple of years, especially on the
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We did ask him this question directly when he was on the air with us one time.
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And his answer was definitely not, no, I'm not running.
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It was more of a, if Trump wins, I don't think there'd be much of a point.
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Or if Trump runs, I don't think there'd be much of a point.
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Meaning, I guess, that he'd clear the field at some level.
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I don't think a great, a huge field really benefits the Republican Party or conservatism
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And I like, I like watching the, I like watching the varying viewpoints.
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I don't think a big primary necessarily is always damaging.
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Everyone's been, you know, 30 second answers on a debate stage from 12 different people does
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No, and the nice thing is, this time you're going to have Liz Cheney joining in too.
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And she'll run and she'll be funded by the left like crazy, so she'll always be standing
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I don't know if they'll pick her or they'll find some, they're going to find someone to
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But someone in that, someone's going to take that wing of the Republican Party and give
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We say hello to Mr. Pat Gray from Pat Gray Unleashed.
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If we got a national divorce in the new, let's say, constitutional republic that we would
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like to live in, do you think the GOP would win the elections?
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I think I should fill all of the Senate seats and they'd win.
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Isn't it bizarre, though, that every time you go to sleep with a lead, you wake up with
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Adam Laxalt would drop the, what, almost three-point lead he had going into the weekend.
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Well, all the precincts that came in were heavy Democrat.
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We just thought they might be slightly Democrat.
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Didn't happen in the gubernatorial race, though.
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If you're going to do it, you know, if you're going to cheat, you'd think you would do...
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As long as we have the Senate, then they won't be able to say anything.
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And to see the victory lap that Biden is taking.
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I mean, after the Xi message, he meets with Xi for three hours, comes out talking about,
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Because, you know, there's such wide and open and honest elections in China.
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In fact, I think he might win 98, 99% of the vote.
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But then again, I didn't see Laxalt losing either.
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At least it takes the edge off the Georgia race now, doesn't it?
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I think there's an argument to be made that now that control isn't 100% teetering on that.
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Maybe Republicans will be more active than some sideline voters that don't typically go out to the polls.
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I'm getting out of the car before they drive it over the cliff, but they are driving it over the cliff.
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Assuming we still have a nation in the next couple of elections, it will be nice to have a one-seat cushion as we see how close these things are.
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And next time the map tilts towards Republicans, as we've discussed many times.
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Well, I thought you were just talking about maybe replacing him with somebody you'd be more excited about.
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Now, there are some people that are talking about it as well.
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No, they haven't because they have to do the ranked choice thing and they have to wait for
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I think Murkowski's the favorite there by March.
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You're going to go for the more of the two evils.
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We've been talking about that race for like two weeks.
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We're like, why have we not talked about this race with Pat in here?
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We need Pat in here when we're talking about the Chewbacca race.
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Because it's important to have somebody that can do.
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But the way this breaks out, of course, when you do the ranked choice voting, you're going
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And her vote, which I think the last one is a Republican, but it's only a couple percent.
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And that, let's just say that even goes to Chewbacca, which it could go either way.
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And that that percentage will be distributed between it will almost exclusively go to Murkowski,
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Now, of course, there's still a bunch of votes to come in.
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I think you have 14 days after the election to have your they wait 14 days, something like
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And you might say, like, it's three towns away and it still takes 14 days.
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I think, you know, Alaska is a little bit of a different place.
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But I mean, if there's one you can't there's no reason to do this in like California.
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Like Alaska, maybe you have a there's some island out that no one's ever visited.
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I think Nevada did that either Nevada or Arizona.
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And they said that Saturday was the deadline for mail-in votes to arrive and be counted.
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And it didn't even specify whether or not they had to be postmarked.
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Well, the other ones they do is they're like, what?
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You don't care about our military members serving overseas that want to get their votes?
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What happens about a person who is in a cave in Afghanistan and decides on election day, he's going.
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He gives it to a Sherpa who postmarks it on November 8th, who then has to walk it.
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And he hasn't heard yet that we withdrew from Afghanistan a year ago.
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He just knows he wanted Catherine Cortez Masto to be the next senator.
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And, you know, while you're at it, I mean, sure, he's over in a cave.
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But you might be in the kitchen of some union kitchen where there's knives and you've got to get around all the knives as you're passing out the ballots and then collecting all the ballots and making sure that it gets there.
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How many times have we seen that be the case for some of these voters?
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Or you might be dead and it takes you a little longer to get it out of your casket, above ground, into the hand of a mailman, and all the way to the voting place.
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It takes some time for the dead to get their vote counted.
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If you've ever seen a horror movie or a zombie movie.
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You have to convince the worms to take that letter up above the soil.
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And they have to grab that ballot with their teeth.
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And worm teeth, you know, they might bite through the, they might start eating the ballot.
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You have to get it up there before they finish dissolving it.
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So many of our problems come back with worm teeth.
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Hey, so can I, can I just give you a story about Walgreens?
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Walgreens has decided to close three locations in Boston.
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It's so clear and obvious that that's all about racism.
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Now, they might have been, you know, robbed every day.
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I was, I was hoping you, I was hoping you would see that like the city of Boston does.
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Went into a Walgreens there and that was an interesting experience.
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Yeah, it was different than most of the Walgreens that I go to in a normal way.
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Well, she was inside the store accosted by multiple homeless people while she was in
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her aisle and I was in my other aisle and she had to kind of come over and, and, and
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On the walk over there, obviously there was 1400 homeless people that came up and asked
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us for money or looked at us in a, in, in, in, in a threatening manner of some sort.
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That's just what you, what's going on down there, downtown.
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After you could crawl over the giant bags of trash that are on every single corner.
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But once you get past that whole circumstance, you think once you're inside the Walgreens,
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you're going to have a moment, a respite of some sort.
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That's what happens when they shop at Walgreens all the time.
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You do kind of expect, though, inside a store to not be harassed by people.
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You expect to be harassed by salespeople trying to sell you stuff.
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Um, why is it that politicians are so gracious on, uh, the first Tuesday of November?
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And yet, when it comes to April 15th, this is a good, this is a, yes.
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You know, I just recently paid my taxes, Glenn.
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And you might say, wait a minute, isn't it November?
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Uh, I did, well, file my taxes is the more appropriate, uh, way of putting it because
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So, uh, I wasn't all that concerned about getting it in on time.
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Like, I mean, I obviously should have been more concerned about it.
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But I mean, I'm like, I obviously want the money back, but I know I'm going to get it
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And it's like, I, I just didn't want to pay the penalties if I owed them money, right?
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I got my refund back and it was less than I was supposed to get because they actually
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So then they took money out of the refund and kept it because they said I didn't pay.
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Sometimes, not an awful lot lately, but sometimes when you speak, it makes me happy.
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There are certain things that you, you have to do.
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I know I send my bill in early so it arrives that day.
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Yeah, well, you know, that's the only way forward, right?
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So, Vivek, I wanted to get you on to explain the FTX thing to somebody like me that's not really up on FTX,
00:46:11.740
and I haven't been following this 30-year-old guy.
00:46:18.040
It's a really interesting story, Glenn, and not all of the details are crystal clear yet.
00:46:22.900
I can give you the super detailed version if you're interested, but the slightly less summary version
00:46:28.100
is that there's a guy who operated an exchange called FTX, right?
00:46:34.040
That was the exchange where people trade cryptocurrencies.
00:46:47.360
So, it's like an old school, think of that as an equivalent of like a stock exchange, except
00:46:53.640
Now, that's owned and founded by and lead owner is Sam Bankman-Fried, who goes by SBS.
00:46:59.100
But he also had a separate hedge fund called Alameda.
00:47:07.940
That's just trading to try to make money, like people always have.
00:47:11.180
On Wall Street, this has existed for a very long time.
00:47:13.960
Hedge funds that just traded their own capital to make more money.
00:47:17.680
So, he's operating both the exchange and his own hedge fund.
00:47:21.240
And it appears what happened was when that hedge fund encountered a bunch of losses,
00:47:28.460
That means they have to post collateral to cover for those losses.
00:47:32.500
So, it appears what he did was he took customer funds from the exchange, but used that to
00:47:42.680
And when that came to light, the other participants in that exchange, particularly one big market
00:47:49.700
participant, this guy Changpeng Zhao, said that he was going to dump a bunch of the, and
00:47:56.000
this is where it gets a little bit complicated, but a bunch of the token issued by the exchange
00:48:00.620
that basically caused the value of that token, the instrument that people hold on the exchange
00:48:06.780
And that sent a free fall spiral that caused the whole house of cards to come crashing
00:48:12.020
So, you know, putting complexities in the details to one side, which we can get into if you want,
00:48:17.280
the bottom line is there's a guy who is self-dealing, using customer money on an exchange to cover
00:48:23.260
his own personal trading losses, tried to cover it up.
00:48:27.360
When that came to light, there was a house of cards that came crashing.
00:48:30.920
And unfortunately, many of those customers are likely going to lose a lot of their money
00:48:35.300
and even the portion they get back, they're not going to see for a very long time.
00:48:41.040
But boy, is there a lot more that's interesting to this story when you look at this guy who
00:48:44.600
was a major donor to the Democratic Party, one of the major faces of advocating for regulation
00:48:50.540
of the cryptocurrency industry in Washington, D.C., that created the smokescreen that prevented
00:48:55.620
people from being able to see through this fundamental fraud.
00:48:59.460
Okay, so let's, I want to go there, but first let's start.
00:49:02.080
He's like 30 years old, and the woman running the hedge fund, his girlfriend looks like she's 14.
00:49:13.180
Yeah, I'm not going to, I don't have the facts, but I will tell you, it did not look good.
00:49:21.880
So how is it that these two people pulled the wool over so many people's eyes?
00:49:30.940
I think it has to do with cultivating this do-good image, this futurist image on the promise of
00:49:38.300
cryptocurrency and the importance of what that would mean for humanity.
00:49:42.220
I mean, at the end of the day, these are nothing, this guy is nothing more than a high-frequency
00:49:47.420
And there's nothing wrong with being a high-frequency trader, but it's just, you're in the business
00:49:50.840
ordinarily to just make an extra buck, to make an extra buck by beating somebody else
00:49:57.560
But what he managed to do was to disguise that in the veneer of this moral superiority,
00:50:04.660
And the funniest part about this, Glenn, is that a lot of people miss this.
00:50:08.720
This is going to have a backlash that I think is going to be over-inclusive, where this guy
00:50:17.460
That's no different than an old-school exchange.
00:50:19.640
It just happened to offer trading in cryptocurrencies.
00:50:21.740
So there's really nothing that fancy or even futuristic, let alone morally humanistic, about
00:50:28.040
It's just an old-school exchange where people trade stuff, and the stuff they've trained
00:50:32.340
But the actual promise of the future of cryptocurrency, of decentralization, is actually decentralized
00:50:38.280
exchanges, where there's no single centralized owner of the exchange.
00:50:42.820
And the irony here, Glenn, is I think this is going to provoke a backlash from regulators
00:50:47.840
to the entire cryptocurrency, including decentralized exchanges.
00:50:53.240
And the irony, here's the ultimate irony that a lot of people miss, he couldn't have done
00:50:57.520
what he did if it were actually a truly decentralized exchange.
00:51:01.920
The only way he was able to borrow those customer funds as one actor and lend it over to his hedge
00:51:07.560
fund to post his collateral is the fact that the exchange was centralized in the first place.
00:51:12.100
And so the irony here is you have this guy who was the face of pro-regulation.
00:51:17.160
He was a pro-regulatory advocate in Washington, D.C., which is why everyone viewed him as the
00:51:25.380
And yet the irony is he happened to be the fraudster, and then the reaction to that is
00:51:29.440
likely going to include over-regulating decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, which would have been
00:51:35.940
probably the best way of actually preventing this fraud.
00:51:38.860
So that's the irony in the whole story that I think people haven't yet caught up to see.
00:51:42.740
Isn't he also big in ESG and the World Economic Forum?
00:51:55.800
Now, there was a story that was floating around on social media yesterday that actually found
00:52:00.040
that a subsidiary of FactSet, which is one of these rating companies, assigned an ESG score
00:52:06.960
on a leadership and governance metric, including as it related to sustainability standards,
00:52:11.940
that was higher for this company than ExxonMobil, which is a company that most Americans will
00:52:27.620
So the Democrats in Washington, D.C., see him as a good guy.
00:52:30.140
He is the second largest donor to Democrats this cycle, donating over $30 million, another
00:52:36.000
point on the strike and the tally of being the good guy.
00:52:39.880
Didn't he also say that for 2024, he will donate up to a billion dollars to the Democrats?
00:52:48.540
So the funny thing is what he said is he was going to donate a billion dollars over the
00:52:55.560
Now, the sad part for a lot of Democrats is they were kind of upset at him because you
00:52:59.580
might think that meant like a few hundred million now and more hundred million then.
00:53:04.300
Actually, he only ended up donating 30 plus million.
00:53:06.260
So the side note to the story, kind of the comic part of this, a lot of Democrats are actually
00:53:10.220
upset at him for only ponying up a little over 30 million because he had committed to
00:53:14.500
But you see, this guy has a common pattern, over-promising and under-delivering.
00:53:18.500
It turns out that applies to political donations as well.
00:53:21.640
But the broader point, though, Glenn, is it's just checking all the boxes.
00:53:24.960
Speaking with Clinton on stage and Tony Blair, boldly wearing shorts, being the cool guy of
00:53:31.220
the future, World Economic Forum, all that, that entire crowd, ESG rating, donations to
00:53:36.620
the Democratic Party, being vocally pro-regulation in an industry where the other entrepreneurs
00:53:42.040
have, in my opinion, for good reason, resisted regulation.
00:53:45.820
That created the cultivated aura of this being one of the good guys, one of the guys you could
00:53:51.260
And it reminds me a lot of, actually, that CEO of Volkswagen.
00:53:57.840
He was the CEO of Volkswagen, which was the number one ESG award-winning company.
00:54:03.340
Until they found, and by the way, he would wax eloquent about climate change and the energy
00:54:07.020
transition until they found that he had actually rigged the emissions measurements in their
00:54:12.680
This reminded me a lot of that story, where the person who protests the case for the futurism
00:54:20.340
of the ESG-laden world, one of the good guys about the pro-regulation crowd, ended up being
00:54:28.200
And it's not an accident that that pattern just repeats itself time and again, because it's
00:54:34.080
all about creating a smokescreen to allow you to get away with the kind of fraud you would
00:54:39.160
have never gotten away with if people hadn't been thrown off the scent with the smokescreen
00:54:48.180
And I wish people would learn the lesson, Glenn.
00:54:50.220
But there's something about us as a people that make us suckers for the smokescreen of
00:54:54.860
wanting to be the pro-ESG, pro-Democrat, pro-regulation good guys, that every time that
00:55:00.000
ends up being actually a pretty good way to throw the regulators and to throw customers
00:55:04.220
off the scent and to be able to get away with something like this.
00:55:07.060
And Vivek, there's a real big media angle here to this too, because this is yet another
00:55:13.120
example, Elizabeth Holmes style, where they made this guy into a hero.
00:55:17.520
All the things, like he doesn't brush his hair.
00:55:20.240
There were stories about how he wears shorts to every meeting.
00:55:23.960
One story talked about how he would fall asleep on beanbag chairs outside of offices and they'd
00:55:30.340
bring in all these multi-billion dollar donors past him while he was sleeping.
00:55:34.960
And then he would wake up and waddle into the meeting like 10 minutes later.
00:55:46.380
One story talked about, these are all praising him, where he was playing video games during
00:55:54.460
And they gave him a billion dollars after this meeting where he was playing League of Legends
00:56:01.140
And like, there's no mea culpa from the media after all of this who built this guy into this
00:56:11.500
All they'll get is a bunch of podcasts later on hosted by the same reporters who initially
00:56:17.440
interviewed him and made him into this superstar.
00:56:24.160
And this is less a story about this random guy, SPF, whatever.
00:56:34.480
I mean, what is it about our state of our psyche, our cultural psyche in the U.S., even
00:56:41.120
internationally, that causes us to bear this self-inflicting pain every time, to line up
00:56:47.560
behind a guy who not only poses to be the boy genius, I mean, that was Elizabeth Holmes
00:56:52.220
version of this, but to take that to the next level, to think that he is actually better
00:56:57.100
than the rest of us just because he checked the boxes that we had created in our artificial
00:57:02.720
edifice of ESG and of humanitarianism and of political philanthropy.
00:57:09.420
It's almost as though we did this to ourselves and he was just the guy who happened to ride
00:57:14.180
the wave that the rest of our culture had created.
00:57:17.220
That's the more interesting part of this story because it's the Volkswagen thing all
00:57:23.560
I mean, it's all the stuff I've been writing and talking about for two years.
00:57:26.320
We just see the same story repeat itself in different clothing.
00:57:29.800
It just happened to be in the closing of cryptocurrency this time around.
00:57:32.980
So I heard on the podcast, All In, I heard Brian Armstrong, who is the CEO of Coinbase,
00:57:45.480
He said, I just thought he was a really good guy.
00:57:49.020
He said, now, in retrospect, I guess I did see things, but I ignored them.
00:57:59.320
I mean, I think that's what makes it such a big story, right?
00:58:01.200
And I'm not even, you know, I follow the cryptocurrency space, but that's not an area where I spend
00:58:08.040
I'm focused more on, you know, equity markets, et cetera.
00:58:11.340
But there is something about seeing a guy who is calling for greater regulation in his own
00:58:18.620
industry while also making greater donations to the very people who are responsible for crafting
00:58:29.100
That alone struck me as potentially false and inauthentic.
00:58:34.760
Now, was that going to underlie a $30 billion, $40 billion fraud?
00:58:37.900
I did not necessarily go to the extent of predicting that.
00:58:40.580
There was something that was amiss about this in terms of calling for self-hating regulation
00:58:44.520
while donating to very people who are going to write those regulations.
00:58:58.800
So it's not going to be, we could probably count it.
00:59:00.380
If we took 10 minutes, we could probably find 10 to 20 other examples that smell just like it.
00:59:04.020
We were with Vivek Ramaswamy and we're going to continue our conversation with him in just a second
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because we haven't even gotten to the Ukraine part or the missing $1.7 billion.
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So I'm sketchy on all of this stuff of ache, but I there's a missing 1.7 billion billion dollars.
01:00:56.500
I can't say if it's accurate, but that is what that is.
01:01:07.780
Well, the funny thing is now they're talking about this, about the potential hack into the system, too, after the fraud story came to light.
01:01:17.400
So I have no basis for this other than intuition.
01:01:20.440
But to say that that hack seems mysteriously well-timed.
01:01:25.300
So a guy is being investigated now for fraud, being scrutinized for fraud, for himself misappropriating those funds to his affiliated hedge fund from an exchange that he was operating for customers.
01:01:43.880
And I think that it strikes me as a little convenient to sort of say that, OK, the hack is something that we can blame because that's something that's outside of all of our control.
01:01:52.540
When, in fact, at the very moment, for two years, there wasn't any report of a hack.
01:01:57.560
But now there's a report of a hack right when you are being investigated.
01:02:01.580
So that did that did smell a little bit amiss to me.
01:02:05.640
But, you know, the facts on this are changing by the day, changing by the hour.
01:02:11.120
But the lesson, I think, is actually less complicated than each of those detailed facts might, you know, might, you know, invite.
01:02:20.340
And I think that it's pretty simple, whether it was cryptocurrency or anything else.
01:02:24.960
There's just a guy who's operating in exchange for customers.
01:02:27.460
And you cannot use customer money without their express permission to advance your own financial trading goals, period.
01:02:38.960
And whether you're regulated or not, that is an illegal act of misappropriation, of theft, and then fraud and lying to the people who you're stealing from.
01:02:47.820
So it actually, in a certain sense, has nothing to do with cryptocurrency, has nothing to do with crypto regulation.
01:02:52.760
The only double irony of this is that if it had actually been operated as a truly decentralized exchange, this guy couldn't have even done the thing that he did.
01:03:03.240
And so in a certain sense, the crypto-ness of this, let alone the morality of this, is all just a deflection and a smokescreen from the essence of what was really nothing different than just an old school Madoff-esque fraud.
01:03:16.820
And is there anything more than just trading into fiat currency, becoming in bed with Ukraine and the main bank of Ukraine to trade cryptocurrency and get it into fiat currency so people could use it?
01:03:36.480
Do you think there's a money-making scam in there as well?
01:03:39.840
Well, I think there's no doubt that there is, you know, in all of crypto exchanges, sort of a money laundering element to it.
01:03:49.120
In the sense that, you know, you're using the supposed anonymity of these exchanges to be able to, you know, launder money that you otherwise would have not been able to launder.
01:04:09.040
Vivek Ramaswamy, he is the author of Nation of Victims and co-founder and executive chairman of Strive Asset Management.
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So they could steal that money that I gave the government that you now have in your bank.
01:04:56.420
Cyber criminals are way less evil than we give it, than we think.
01:05:05.100
I mean, if you're comparing them to the government, then they're way, they're much more evil than we think when we're not comparing them to the government.
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I want to share a story just to see if you can hear the cognitive dissonance in this story.
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Last month, a 10-year-old boy walked into the nurse's office of his elementary school in Highland, New York.
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He wanted the Vaseline to rub it on to his new tattoo, a crude rendering of his name in large block letters on the inside of his forearm.
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The boy had gotten a tattoo with his mother's permission from a neighbor, according to local authorities.
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While some states have no minimum age for receiving a tattoo if a parent allows it,
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New York State forbids anyone younger than 18 from getting tattooed with or without parental consent.
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Last month, both the tattoo artist Austin Smith, who was unlicensed, and the boy's mother were arrested
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as pictures of the boy's arms stirred outrage across local and international news sites and social media.
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About a tattoo, a local news story about a tattoo, why would that be of any relevance whatsoever to the American people?
01:07:35.560
It was just placed here by my Zionist overlords.
01:07:40.400
Now, if I may continue, Stu, without your rude questioning,
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This one we're featuring on our Wednesday night special.
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Our Wednesday night special is all about a country that has gone insane.
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Now, just remember the little tattoo story as we share this story about a father who lost his children to the state.
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That moment, the doctor places your newborn into your arms.
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I'll do everything in my power to keep you safe.
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For Jeff, that moment arrived times two when his twin boys, James and Jude, were born.
01:08:45.440
I've raised them since they were the youngest children.
01:08:48.240
And we were very close and had a super tight bond right up until the courts took them away from me.
01:08:56.420
Everything changed when the boys were two years old.
01:09:00.360
Jeff's then-wife began telling James that timeouts were only for little boys.
01:09:14.000
And when I put my foot down and stopped that, she filed for a divorce almost immediately.
01:09:20.700
And using her connections with licensed care providers, she was able to get psychologists to basically force me out of my house.
01:09:31.680
Jeff, who then still had 50-50 custody, took this video of James when he was only three years old.
01:10:12.880
She enrolled them in school as a girl under a fake girl's name.
01:10:15.600
She started to claim that I couldn't cut my son's hair and that I couldn't use male pronouns.
01:10:22.320
And she went to court to try to force me to use male pronouns at home to stop presenting them to the world as a boy.
01:10:30.980
This evening, there's a decision to share in a volatile custody case involving a seven-year-old's gender.
01:10:36.260
The custody battles continued, but Jeff's ex-wife used her connections with psychologists to force her hand.
01:10:51.680
His 50-50 custody soon became every other weekend only.
01:10:56.680
This hurt the relationship between me and my sons tremendously.
01:11:00.520
And my sons were very sad about it and cried about it all the time.
01:11:05.400
So James, now 10, has lived his short life in a whirlwind of confusion.
01:11:12.040
So there was a time when every authority figure in my son's life except me was telling him he was a girl.
01:11:19.900
His teacher at school, the principal, the police officer at school, the librarian was telling him he was a girl, the lunch lady was telling him he was a girl.
01:11:27.240
His brother, although he didn't want to, was forced to use his girl's name.
01:11:32.260
But there's one part of James' story that makes it even more tragic.
01:11:36.380
And here's the important thing to know about my case.
01:11:41.280
He only presents as a girl when he's with his mother.
01:11:43.240
So my approach was just very simple, to show my son how great it is to be a man.
01:11:51.800
So we just did all the things that I did as a boy.
01:12:07.460
On the weekends, Jeff shared with his sons his love for boxing.
01:12:11.260
You know, he didn't think he could make it through those first workouts, you know.
01:12:14.740
And he saw that we could tough it out together.
01:12:17.680
We would get down there and do our one hour of floor work, working on our abs, working on our core.
01:12:25.580
In a boxing gym, everybody that does the work gets respect.
01:12:35.260
They came to understand themselves as in command of their world, able to make changes in their world.
01:12:41.800
And this eventually culminated in my son refusing to wear a dress at his mother's home.
01:12:53.320
He told the court-appointed counselor that he wanted to be a boy and wanted to go to school as a boy.
01:13:00.080
The court-ordered counselor, she said, well, this child is saying he wants to be a boy.
01:13:04.500
That must be because the father's making him say that.
01:13:08.100
And on that basis, she recommended that the court take the children away from me.
01:13:20.660
And Jeff says she's already beginning a full transformation for James.
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But I assure you, I will not stop fighting for my son under any conditions.
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We say, save James, save thousands of children, so we don't forget those other children.
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But also for all the other kids whose parents just won't speak up.
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And in my daily prayers, I always remember the other children and their parents who either can't or won't fight for them.
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He's not allowed to talk to anyone about this story.
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He actually would like the court to throw him in jail so he can challenge it.
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Because he says it is unlawful and unconstitutional to have him stop telling the story.
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It's amazing that we live in a world where New York is putting parents in jail if you give your child a tattoo.
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However, you can take him to California and have them mutilated.
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Oh boy, big news from Egypt, you know, at the UN climate conference.
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They have come out and said, according to a new study, we've got nine years.
01:17:50.140
Well, I should say we have nine years, but they're very concerned because new gas projects
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launched in response, you know, to Russia and Ukraine is,
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is, will consume 10% of the remaining carbon budget that they have.
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Well, it makes it all but impossible for nations to meet the Paris Agreement goal
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Natural gas is, we're talking about the same substance.
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The one that's almost exclusively responsible for the drops in emissions.
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We have 1% increase in carbon dioxide just from burning fossil fuels right now.
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And emissions, now listen to me, emissions in both the United States and India have increased
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while China and the European Union will probably report small declines.
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Stu, scientists are warning of the world's dangerous trajectory right now.
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Leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference, okay?
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They've advocated for natural gas as a transition fuel that will ease the world's switch from
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So at least four new gas projects have been reported or announced in the last 10 days with
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several African countries pledging to expand export capacity and support and supply more
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That's why it's important, Glenn, to keep Africa in the Dark Ages.
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You know, hopefully they can never have any piece of the civilization we've grown to know
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If we keep them in a situation where they have none of the resources that we have, that's
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It's the rhetoric, I'm quoting, the rhetoric that has alarmed scientists and activists who
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So, the theory is if, let's say they get natural gas and they are able to experience
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Yeah, they'll burn to death in a hellish future.
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That hellish future happens within an air-conditioned room.
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With a room that has lighting and refrigeration.
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Or they can theoretically avoid some of this hellish future if they just continue their
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Well, I'm sure they would sign on for that immediately.
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Why wouldn't they just bypass, I guess, their entire lives of potential economic growth?
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It doesn't lead to anything other than degrowth.
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We just need to decompose the economy for a little bit.
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Well, I'm not a scientist, so I can't tell you.
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So, Stu, nothing ever good starts with, so, Glenn.
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We have a situation where, let me give you the good news.
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Say the house should go Republican, 95% chance.
01:27:35.740
Although, I do remember those prediction markets being very, very confident in things like
01:27:46.860
In fact, now there's a 94% chance that Cary Lake will lose, according to the prediction
01:27:54.640
She probably had a 60% or 70% chance in mid to late last week.
01:28:05.100
Almost everybody will tell you, and you've heard this nonstop, even in the mainstream
01:28:09.160
media, the Republicans will likely win the House.
01:28:11.480
But can I be a little pessimistic here and walk you through what we have?
01:28:24.880
But just how confident do you feel in this scenario that I'm about to walk you through?
01:28:38.740
And I have, I don't know, what I tend to find is a somewhat disturbing situation.
01:28:46.340
So I ranked all of the races in the best chance for Republicans to win.
01:29:09.240
Because you know there's a lot of weasels in there.
01:29:20.480
So I've ranked them in the old school grading system from, you know, your old high school
01:29:29.900
Now, none of these, I would say, are completely decided.
01:29:37.580
And that means really high, according to the grading scale.
01:29:45.260
Let me give you an example of a race that I put as an A.
01:29:52.000
Now, as of right now, she leads by 0.4% with 99% of the vote in.
01:30:03.880
If you give me one moment, Glenn, of course, I can pull that up for you, and I'm completely
01:30:07.800
prepared to give you any detail that's additional to what I'm giving you at any time.
01:30:12.800
And that's what's important about this particular coverage.
01:30:15.300
I can always tell you, in a moment's notice, and people need to understand this, it's very,
01:30:22.920
We're just looking for the number of votes that...
01:30:37.680
99% in, and you'd think, so basically what we're talking about there would, the outstanding
01:30:43.900
vote couldn't overturn it, only if there was like a recount or something else.
01:31:14.860
You know, it doesn't sound as good, you know, but...
01:31:31.120
All you have to do is depend on the fine people in New York and California.
01:31:37.220
But I'm going to go ahead and just give us those three just for the optimistic take here
01:31:48.740
Now, seeming even more cavernous in between 2,15 and 2,18 than it did just a few minutes
01:32:12.580
How many races would you like to see in the B column to make yourself comfortable that
01:32:21.060
That's how I would feel, too, because I always feel these are going to go against us.
01:32:34.460
And you're going to be excited that here in our B's, we have another California.
01:32:40.140
And you're going to be super confident because it's Arizona is the other one.
01:32:52.220
Now, if we assume we have both of the A's and the B's, that gets us to not 218, which
01:33:13.060
Now, may I ask, how much worse is a B from an A?
01:33:40.480
And the only reason I say it's a B is because it was expected to be a pretty easy, not an
01:33:46.360
easy win, but it's a purplish district, but it was projected to be a Republican-leaning
01:34:01.600
And then we have a race in California where there is a six-point lead currently for the
01:34:26.220
And you'd like how many to be there to just get one out of them?
01:34:50.560
Now, if you're optimistic and you take those A's and B's and you're like, okay, we can pick
01:35:02.500
I think Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, I think they've done their job.
01:35:09.880
They should be rewarded with more leadership positions.
01:35:16.260
Now, here we have two California races and an Arizona in the seas.
01:35:23.620
And please tell me it's like in the farming area of California.
01:35:31.120
Again, you know, I know California we make fun of.
01:35:33.720
There are races that a lot of Republicans do win in California.
01:35:36.820
Some of them they're even favored in, but like, but like, for example, this one, which
01:35:45.580
I would say right now, if you look at the projections, was a Biden plus six district.
01:35:54.960
Now in this environment, which is not necessarily, I mean, it's only slightly better for Republicans
01:36:03.720
And of course we still have 30% of the vote to count.
01:36:15.580
You've got some, I mean, you've got, I think there's, there's one that's in Arizona where
01:36:21.240
the Republican leads by 0.6% with 89% of the vote in, which I, my A's I put, if you're
01:36:29.580
over 95% in and you're winning, you know, I put that as an A, this one's at 89% in winning.
01:36:38.720
Um, and it was a, uh, likely Republican district going in.
01:36:42.920
So you'd think maybe there's a chance that some of the, some of the votes will be, again,
01:36:47.360
you see me, I'm reaching for some of these, but that's, again, it's close.
01:37:02.760
In fact, a lot of these, uh, these mainstream people looking at this are like, oh, well,
01:37:07.260
we, we project 221 for Republicans, plus or minus four.
01:37:16.420
Because 225 at this point would be like, wow, that's fantastic.
01:37:32.340
Well, again, they're all in California, mostly, at least all in California.
01:37:39.820
And, you know, the Democrat even have the lead in a bunch of them.
01:37:45.040
Why is it that it just seems to be in the sketchy states where they can't really count
01:38:02.360
It might be something that, in theory, as a lawmaker in one of these states, you'd be
01:38:06.900
incentivized to correct your terrible practices because no one believes you're voting anymore.
01:38:18.380
So, again, you can see why, right, you would say, hey, Republicans are favored in this race.
01:38:34.780
Do you have 95% confidence in that scenario I just mapped out for you?
01:38:45.340
You know, you may remember, Glenn, us saying over and over again, Republicans should win
01:39:01.420
You know, you've got a couple ranked choice voting.
01:39:06.200
Who would you say is most responsible for that loss?
01:39:15.360
I want you to think, is there anyone that might be responsible that maybe we should reassign?
01:39:27.060
I mean, reassign them to, I don't know, basement duty instead of running the show.
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It's up to you and me to make a difference, to help our country become free again.
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I'm talking it through like I'm on a game show.
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Based on your question, I think what you want me to say...
01:41:53.420
And you would say, I guess I'll generalize this, Republican leadership.
01:41:59.520
But Mitch McConnell doesn't have anything to do with the House.
01:42:09.880
These guys are the same guys that were in those positions under Donald Trump.
01:42:26.480
And Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy have got to go.
01:42:33.320
Maybe especially since they're the minority leaders.
01:42:37.960
I mean, after a poor showing, usually what you see are repercussions for the people who
01:43:03.120
But that doesn't seem to be the way that these things go in Washington.
01:43:08.240
Here are the people that can make Mitch McConnell a thing of the past.
01:43:16.740
Is Mitt Romney really going to do a thing about Mitt?
01:43:24.580
He should know that I'm going to remember what you said about Mitch McConnell being responsible.
01:43:35.000
And since you were wrong about that, I'm sure you're going to evict him.
01:43:41.020
And if not, don't worry about it, because we have a very long memory.
01:44:10.840
All of these people need to be reminded that when you lose and you have put your money into an Alaska race that was going to go to the Republican no matter what, and you double down there.
01:44:42.580
Put it into a race where two Republicans were going against each other.
01:44:50.200
Because the candidate running against Lisa Murkowski said she will not vote for Mitch McConnell as leadership.
01:45:00.580
All of these senators, all of these senators know what their constituents are saying about Mitch McConnell.
01:45:16.640
The government switchboard at the Capitol is 202-224-3121.
01:45:23.360
Get on the phone, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy.
01:45:30.560
Because they're going to be meeting tomorrow and then, I guess, voting on Wednesday.
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Mitch McConnell must not be the majority leader.
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I think we need to come up with a, I don't know.
01:47:35.960
Because, I mean, it is a little depressing looking at some of the stuff.
01:47:44.720
Well, one thing we could do is have a country that's not a raging trash fire.
01:47:53.960
But I'm just saying, if that existed, we could talk about other things.
01:47:58.320
I don't see any country that's not just a burning trash fire.
01:48:03.620
I mean, St. Kitts, Bermuda, they all seem like they're doing okay.
01:48:08.980
Maybe the whole thing is just being surrounded by water.
01:48:17.700
I think I'd rather be trapped on Gilligan's Island.
01:48:20.340
Because at least, well, no, I just remember the quicksand.
01:48:35.400
Would you, do you think Gilligan's Island makes less sense than today's America?
01:48:52.680
You know, we are three days away from fundamentally getting a sequel to a Christmas story.
01:49:05.920
Who's done a lot more since Ralphie, but he also just gets called Ralphie anyway.
01:49:09.020
I, uh, that's, uh, one of my bigger regrets, uh, in, uh, in celebrity encounters.
01:49:18.480
Well, remember in the days when we were really, really, really, really busy?
01:49:25.460
Where I didn't really have time to even think, you know, and, uh, people would make appointments
01:49:33.240
for me and stuff and then brief me on the way into the room.
01:49:39.020
Uh, and, uh, Peter Billingsley was, uh, was in my office one day and, uh, and I said,
01:49:52.620
And I said, why is Ralphie from a Christmas story in my office?
01:50:16.860
I'm just there by myself with Peter Billingsley.
01:50:27.120
People used to say you looked like a grownup Ralphie.
01:50:32.480
So, uh, so Peter was there and I said, Hey, Peter, you know, feeling kind of bad for him.
01:50:40.120
You're cause you're thinking this guy worked as Ralphie and that was it.
01:50:44.160
Now he's, you know, I don't know, flipping pancakes at the waffle house.
01:50:47.820
And, uh, and I said, so what have you, you know, what, what do you, what do you, what
01:50:53.840
do you, what do you, what have you been doing lately?
01:50:58.040
And he just, he said, uh, well, we just, uh, finished Iron Man.
01:51:03.720
And I was like, ah, I've got to reevaluate everything I was going to say to you.
01:51:21.180
He's decided to go, which is, I think I, as a person who absolutely loves that movie and
01:51:25.480
I know that's not necessarily universal, but it is a loved Christmas classic.
01:51:30.760
Uh, Christmas Story, which they've done a bunch of stuff with on that.
01:51:33.900
They didn't have, didn't they have a Broadway show for a while?
01:51:43.720
I went to, I went to a Christmas Story musical with Ralphie.
01:51:55.160
Um, but he is, they're, they're actually doing a sequel to it with Ralphie grown up.
01:52:10.120
Um, and it's coming out, uh, this week on HBO Max, I believe.
01:52:13.820
I don't know if it's in the theaters as well, but, uh, in HBO Max, which I'm, I don't know.
01:52:18.400
I did not see Yellowstone last night, which is something that may have improved my mood
01:52:32.880
Are you the type of person, cause I am this type of person, that if I'm watching a series
01:52:36.900
and a big episode airs and I don't see it, I literally will not go anywhere near social
01:52:45.960
I can't, cause you go onto Twitter and just people are like, Hey, that was great on Yellowstone
01:52:50.380
when the alien came down and killed Kevin Costner and you're like, Holy crap.
01:52:56.340
Good thing they saved it for the very end though.
01:53:02.640
And you get, you can't even, there's no way to filter it out.
01:53:05.760
Like I want a, this is, this is a website I've been dreaming up for a while.
01:53:14.760
Where I can go and read, especially, especially with these, these things that these series
01:53:20.700
that have like five years of, of episodes out and you're just picking them up.
01:53:25.900
I really refuse to commit to a series at this point, unless there's five years of it, because
01:53:32.620
Give me five, show me you can stay on the air for five years.
01:53:36.680
Cause there's nothing worse than having some, I skip everything that says one season, 2016.
01:53:45.740
It might be great, but I'm going to be frustrated cause it's going to just stop.
01:53:50.920
So unless you get five seasons, I don't even go in, but let's say I'm on season two, episode
01:53:56.660
I can't cert, I can't look, look at any content about the show because they're going to give
01:54:03.100
me what happened in season four and season five and season three.
01:54:07.900
So I can't, I don't get the full experience of watching the show because a big part of that
01:54:19.220
You can't do that in that sort of community vibe because you'll get it all.
01:54:23.580
So I want a, I want a site that has, it's like a spoiler free zone.
01:54:27.940
I say I'm on season two, episode three and I can read all the articles from that time.
01:54:33.900
So somebody do that and then cut me in on the profits cause I don't want to do it.
01:54:49.920
Just anything said on the radio is a binding contract to anyone who has the same idea and
01:55:01.220
Now see if this, you think this is another Peter Billingsley story.
01:55:04.700
Is it where you're hanging out with George Clooney?
01:55:09.160
So I went to see George Clooney and Julia Roberts in a movie, Ticket to Paradise.
01:55:16.100
So he didn't actually, did you watch it with George Clooney and Julia Roberts?
01:55:20.200
No, no, uh, no, uh, here's the, uh, here's the thing.
01:55:25.920
That one was not a decision that I made per se.
01:55:32.040
So I go and I realize before the movie starts, there's no one under 50 in that room.
01:55:43.580
There's no, but there's no youngins going to see that one, you know?
01:55:59.080
I, I just fell into the driving Miss Daisy category.
01:56:06.900
You know, nobody, nobody who was young went to see that or steel magnolias or one of those.
01:56:13.260
They're like, Oh, I remember when they were young in their forties and they were making
01:56:21.180
And then you, you know, then you're seeing all these people that you grew up with and
01:56:25.420
you're like, Oh boy, they're sure aging well, aren't they?
01:56:30.300
You know, and they have to stop shooting about four 30 in the afternoon for these people.
01:56:43.000
They were the stars of my day where they were so great in oceans 11.
01:56:54.020
It's been a while, Glenn, since, since oceans 11.
01:56:59.240
That movie came out the same year as, uh, the September 11th attacks came out.
01:57:10.080
When's the last time George Clooney was in a movie you've seen or made any of any note?
01:57:19.820
So I saw on an airplane once something he was in where I don't remember.
01:57:30.780
He wasn't happy in his job and he was, I don't remember.
01:57:35.220
I can't tell you the last time I saw a George Clooney movie.
01:57:39.960
Because I still think of him as the biggest, you know, one of the biggest stars out there.
01:57:44.540
I would say, so you've got Ticket to Paradise, which of course.
01:57:51.700
You know, it's none of this funny business that goes on these days or days.
01:58:04.620
Then, then there was nothing in 2019 other than, you know, TV stuff.
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I saw that one because somebody wrote it or it, it had.
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I'm trying to remember there was some reason we went and it wasn't for George Clooney and
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So you might remember, I could see you remembering Tomorrowland from 2015.
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But again, we're back in 2015 here and I still haven't gotten to one I'm sure you'd actually
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Tomorrowland, wasn't Tomorrowland that awful, awful movie that I thought looked really cool?
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No, that was Sky Captain of Tomorrow or something like that.
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And then I'll get to one that I do know that you were, that you would appreciate, which
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That's really the last George Clooney movie I would say he was like a star and was, and
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it wasn't a big hit, but it was like critically acclaimed and I liked it and, you know, okay.
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He was looking a little like he was wearing a toupee.
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I don't think he was, but he was looking a little like he was wearing a toupee.
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He wasn't wearing a toupee, but he looked like he was wearing a toupee.
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His hair was just not, you know, it made me feel better as a man, you know, you can go
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It's not like every Tom Cruise movie that just pisses you off.
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He's looking pretty, he's looking pretty rough.
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And then you find out he's 70 and you're like, okay, I no longer feel good about myself.
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We're just talking about these big movie stars.
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George Clooney hadn't done anything for a long time.
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You go back to Leonardo DiCaprio and you're what, back to 2014?
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I mean, you have Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with DiCaprio and Pitt, which was a big, you
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But before that, you're going back to 2015, 2013.
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I mean, The Revenant for Leonardo DiCaprio and Wolf of Wall Street.
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Now, he's got a couple of things that look really good in the pipeline, including a Jim
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If Leonardo DiCaprio is in it, then it will not be the truth.
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Well, he may have been that too, but he wasn't a religion of anyone's note.
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You think Leonardo DiCaprio is going to tell that story?
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But, you know, I, I, maybe it's a situation like Clooney, it's not like he can't get gigs,
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He could go work if he wanted to, but, you know, he's busy selling multi-billion dollar
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tequila companies and just like, eh, why am I bothering?
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You know, have you, have you seen all the people that make these tequila companies?
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And it's like, we're going to sell it for a billion dollars.
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Yeah, it seems like the Clooney magic with that was not only is he George Clooney, but
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he also like got the best people to make the best tequila.
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And then, you know, really everyone tries to do this though.
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I mean, who, but it seems like this generation where you think of those people as the big
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movie stars, DiCaprio, Pid, Clooney, it's kind of gone, right?
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I mean, like they, they'll still make movies, but like, are there, is there anybody stepping
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Like, who would you put in that category of like a big time movie star right now?
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Cause most of them wind up just doing TV and Chris Pratchett did a TV show for Amazon
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I mean, he's got like, he's got like a Hulu series.
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He is very good, but it's like, it's, it's a weird time for that.
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And of course he's also, he's doing mint mobile commercials every 10 seconds.
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He's just buying companies and just doing the commercials.
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That's how they save money is they just get Ryan Reynolds to do all their commercials.
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They don't have to, you know, they don't have to pay him any extra.
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They slap their name on a bottle of, of, of alcohol.
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I want the best people that can make some tequila for me.
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Go hire someone who knows how to make it and put my name on it, please.